Social Theory And The Global Environment

Author : Ted Benton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134833032
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theory and the Global Environment written by Ted Benton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric `managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact. The authors explore the relationship between social theory and sustainability in an attempt to transend technical rhetoric and embrace a broader understanding of `nature'.

Author : William D. Sunderlin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742519701
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology, Social Theory, and the Environment written by William D. Sunderlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that polemical environmental and ecological debates are governed not so much by access to 'facts' as they are by the political ideology of the expert advancing a particular argument. Moreover, the thoughts of these experts tend to be based largely in just one of three competing streams of political thought: the left, the center, or the right. Drawing on social theory, the author explains the philosophical origins of this tendency to rely on just one of three traditions, and why this poses a serious obstacle to conceptualizing the cause, nature, and resolution of environmental problems.

Author : John Barry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113418462X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment and Social Theory written by John Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an engaging and accessible manner by one of the leading scholars in his field, Environment and Social Theory, completed revised and updated with two new chapters, is an indispensable guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another. This popular text outlines the complex interlinking of the environment, nature and social theory from ancient and pre-modern thinking to contemporary social theorizing. John Barry: examines the ways major religions such as Judaeo-Christianity have and continue to conceptualize the environment analyzes the way the non-human environment features in Western thinking from Marx and Darwin, to Freud and Horkheimer explores the relationship between gender and the environment, postmodernism and risk society schools of thought, and the contemporary ideology of orthodox economic thinking in social theorising about the environment. How humans value, use and think about the environment, is an increasingly central and important aspect of recent social theory. It has become clear that the present generation is faced with a series of unique environmental dilemmas, largely unprecedented in human history. With summary points, illustrative examples, glossary and further reading sections this invaluable resource will benefit anyone with an interest in environmentalism, politics, sociology, geography, development studies and environmental and ecological economics.

Author : Riley E. Dunlap
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742501867
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociological Theory and the Environment written by Riley E. Dunlap and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all of the major perspectives, focal points and debates in environmental sociology are reflected in this collection of essays. The volume exceeds the bounds of conventional theory by surveying societies and their natural biophysical environments.

Author : Gert Spaargaren
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262693356
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Environmental Flows written by Gert Spaargaren and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.

Author : John Barry
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415172705
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment and Social Theory written by John Barry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the ideas of key theorists, this text provides an introduction to the relationship between the environment and social theory, both historically and within contemporary social theory.

Author : John Barry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134184638
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment and Social Theory written by John Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thematic rather than theorist centred approach is an essential guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another including examinations of the works of the key theorists including Marx, Mill, Habermas and Adorno.

Author : Elizabeth Shove
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135094020
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Practices written by Elizabeth Shove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer. The contributors to Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change come from different disciplines – sociology, geography, economics and philosophy – but are alike in taking social theories of practice as a common point of reference. This volume explores questions which arise from this distinctive and fresh approach: how do practices and material elements circulate and intersect? how do complex infrastructures and systems form and break apart? how does the reproduction of social practice sustain related patterns of inequality and injustice? This collection shows how social theories of practice can help us understand what societal transitions towards sustainability might involve, and how they might be achieved. It will be of interest to students and researchers in sociology, environmental studies, geography, philosophy and economics, and to policy makers and advisors working in this field.

Author : Elizabeth Shove
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415540658
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Practices written by Elizabeth Shove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is widely agreed to be one of the greatest challenges facing society today. Thus far, however, efforts to promote pro-environmental behaviour have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer. The expert contributors to Sustainable Practices show how a practice approach can help us understand what societal transitions towards sustainability involve, and how they might be achieved.

Author : Damian White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137524251
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environments, Natures and Social Theory written by Damian White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled. This ground breaking text moves between environmental sociology and environmental geography, political and social ecology and critical design studies to provide a definitive mapping of the state of environmental social theory in the age of the anthropocene. Environments, Natures and Social Theory provokes dialogue and confrontation between critical political economists, actor network theorists, neo-Malthusians and environmental justice advocates. It maps out the new environmental politics of hybridity moving from hybrid neo-liberals to end times ecologists, from post environmentalists to cyborg eco-socialists. White, Rudy and Gareau insist on the necessity of a critical but optimistic hybrid politics, arguing that a more just, egalitarian, democratic and sustainable anthropocene is within our grasp. This will only be brought into being, however, by reclaiming, celebrating and channeling the reconstructive potential of entangled hybrid humans as inventive hominids, creative gardeners, critical publics and political agents. Written in an accessible style, Environments, Natures and Social Theory is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences.